North Korea: Who would have to go to war with Trump?

Posted - August 13 201707:12

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North Korea: Who would have to go to war with Trump?

"All over the world the world, they're talking about Guam, and they're talking about you, and I think-tourism, I can say this, your tourism, you're going to go up like tenfold with the expenditure of no money, so I congratulate you", Trump said.

North Korea refrained from directly mentioning Trump's name or its proposed attack on Guam on Friday, but a commentary in the state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun slammed Washington's push for more sanctions against the regime, saying, "the army and people of the DPRK will put an end to the vicious moves of the US for isolating and stifling" the country, using the acronym for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "Hopefully Kim Jong-un will find another path!" he tweeted. "Was this statement signed off on by anyone?" After Mr. Trump was criticized for his saying North Korea would be met with "fire and fury" unlike the world had ever seen, he later doubled down on his remarks a day later, saying perhaps they weren't tough enough. The exercises were scheduled well before tensions began to rise over Trump's increasingly fiery rhetoric and North Korea's announcement of the missile plan, which if carried out would be its most provocative launch yet. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley called it "the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation". Washington has been repeatedly stating that no option including the use of military force could be ruled out.

Guam is a sovereign U.S. territory and hosts 3,831 military personnel.

Tuesday - Trump: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States". At the same time, it said that China would intervene if the USA and South Korea sought to attack North Korea and topple his regime.

Analysts say they have seen no evidence of any increased alert in North Korea, but they warned the bluster could raise the risk of miscalculation that could result in a conflict far beyond the scale of the 1950-53 Korean War. Trump, responding to a report that USA intelligence indicates Pyongyang can now put a nuclear warhead on its long-range missiles, vowed to rain down "fire and fury" if challenged. While North Korea is testing the patience of its longtime benefactor, such a scenario could lead to a unified Korea and push US troops right up to its border. But it is also one that the USA military has been watching develop for years, with fairly well-defined steps that have led to an ever more complicated and potentially risky situation - but not the outbreak of a nuclear war.

It also emerged today that officials from both countries had been quietly holding talks through diplomatic back-channels for several months. In Pyongyang's opinion, this step will be aimed at deterring the U.S. forces in the Asia-Pacific region. Two-thirds of people polled by CNN said the regime poses a serious threat to the United States, the highest percentage of people with that answer since 2000, according to the network.

When asked by a reporter Friday about reports of back-channel diplomacy, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Patrick Murphy said he didn't "have anything to comment" but added, "Now is not the opportunity for dialogue because we have not seen North Korea's willingness to address. fundamental problems" that include the development of missile and nuclear programs "in defiance of the global community".

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